Comments on: WordPress 2.5 Shortcodes

By: Anup

Anup — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:17:22 +0000

Thanks for this article. One note, I found that the method signature to handle the short code had to have the content parameter be optional. That is this:

add_shortcode(’mycode’, ‘yourFunction’);

function yourFunction ($attr, $content = null) {
// etc…
}

Without the above, I was getting error messages trying to just use

[mycode]

By: alibandito

alibandito — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:29:14 +0000

Aaron, here it is:
a) shortcode as plugin:

function shortcode_readrecent() {
wp_get_archives(’type=postbypost&limit=15′);} (or other template-tag)
add_shortcode(’readrecent’, ’shortcode_readrecent’);

b) modified functions.php: add_filter(’widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

c) add to text-widget: [readrecent]

By: Aaron D. Campbell

Aaron D. Campbell — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:25:35 +0000

albandi: could you give me an example of what you are trying to do? Maybe a snippet of the code you are using?

By: albandi

albandi — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:56:19 +0000

now I try to include template-tags in a shortcode-function, but it doesn’t work.
Is it possible?

By: albandi

albandi — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:40:05 +0000

thanks Aaron!! It works fine I’m happy!!

By: Aaron D. Campbell

Aaron D. Campbell — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:46:09 +0000

albandi: Not by default. However, the way WordPress applies shorcodes is by adding a filter on the_content:
add_filter('the_content', 'do_shortcode', 11); // AFTER wpautop()
You could add that same filter to “widget_text” and shortcodes should start working in them. Try adding this line to your theme’s functions.php file:
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

By: albandi

albandi — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:01:35 +0000

is there a way to add a shortcode to a sidebar textwidget?

By: Aaron D. Campbell

Aaron D. Campbell — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:41:08 +0000

Marcus: Unfortunately there are a lot of reasons. First, try disabling all your plugins. If that fixes the problem, re-enable them one at a time until you find the one that is causing the problem. If that doesn’t work, feel free to contact me.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:24:22 +0000

You seem to know a lot about short codes , I got a issues you may be able to help me with. On my wordpress blog my short codes stopped working , at the moment anything with a gallery short code only shows up with [gallery]. before that it all worked well and the galleries showed up. Do you have any idea what could cause them not to show up.

By: phalkunz

phalkunz — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:52:51 +0000

I just started playing with shortcode. I wrote a short function to display site url. It works fine with Post but it doesn’t work with Page at all. For instance, my shortcode is [url]. When put it in a page it shows [url] itself, instead of the site url.

First I assumed that it works only for Post. But in this post of yours and you said “As you can see, shortcodes allow a user to put a code into a post or PAGE”. Did I do something wrong? or do I have to write extra code?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Cheers